For individuals who observe the huge annual barrage of stories out of the Comedian-Con Worldwide commerce expo — popularly referred to as San Diego Comedian-Con, or SDCC — a part of the massive information in 2024 is that the con gained’t have a corresponding digital or on-line occasion this 12 months, for the primary time since 2019. That’ll depart followers in search of extra methods to observe all of the bulletins streaming out of one of many 12 months’s greatest fandom occasions. However don’t fear, Polygon has you lined.
Marvel and DC are each heading into 2024’s large present with main inquiries to reply. Marvel dialed again its plans for the Marvel Cinematic Universe after some main box-office disappointments, a brand new wave of “superhero fatigue” discourse, and the conviction and sentencing of actor Jonathan Majors, as soon as the centerpiece of the MCU’s upcoming technique. Comedian-Con shall be a preemptive victory lap for the corporate, with Deadpool & Wolverine opening in theaters July 25, and already monitoring as successful. However this 12 months’s Marvel panel can also be the place we’ll compensate for Marvel tasks that appear to have disappeared, and find out how Marvel plans to invigorate its fan base and retool Phases 5 and 6. Changing Kang with Physician Doom? Changing Majors with a special actor? One thing totally completely different?
DC, in the meantime, went by way of its personal main reboot in 2022, when Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad director James Gunn took over the corporate’s film and TV franchise — however Gunn says he gained’t be at Comedian-Con for any type of large DC presentation as a result of he’s too busy capturing his tackle Superman. Dad or mum firm Warner Bros. can have a small presence, repping the upcoming HBO sequence The Penguin and My Adventures with Superman. As a substitute of a presentation, DC can have a sales space the place it’ll attempt to fire up pleasure over new DC Comics merch. Nevertheless it’s all the time potential DC might drop a serious announcement throughout Comedian-Con simply to take care of its presence.
Leaving apart these large two (and Disney, which saves its bulletins for its annual D23 expo), there’s nonetheless lots occurring in media on the con, with panels on upcoming franchise plans for Star Trek, Physician Who, Transformers, Strolling Lifeless, and Alien, in addition to upcoming seasons of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy, and much more.
The occasion will run from July 25-28, and Polygon shall be masking the entire thing. Keep tuned to this web page for all of the information, trailers, bulletins, casting reveals, sneak peeks at upcoming tasks, and extra.
